Sentence examples for a distant aunt from inspiring English sources

I was quite taken aback by his comment, and I was telling a distant aunt of mine that I was surprised at this caste-prejudice, and she responded: "Oh, Iyengars are all like that," referring in turn to my relative's denomination.

My mother felt like a distant aunt too.

I thought of my mother's partner more as a distant aunt.

"I'm like the mom at the training center, but you come to the games and I am a distant aunt," she said.

Each of these things individually could certainly happen ― having to move in with a distant aunt temporarily, trying to set your perennially single aunt up on a surprise date, being caught hooking up with a college student at a funeral ― but taken together, and laid out in such glossy, neat order, the plot beats can feel rote.

Once, even the utility bill had a stamp on it; now, a birthday card from a far-distant aunt is likely to have only a routine flag stamp.

Once upon a time, even the utility bill had a stamp on it; now, a birthday card from a far-distant aunt is likely to have only a routine flag stamp.

Hilda Burkitt, my distant aunt, was an important figure in the Women's Social and Political Union and left her job to become the Birmingham branch's paid secretary, but her voice has been largely silenced by history.

But it appears we are intent on treating it like an oversized sweater given by some distant aunt at the holiday season; we put it in a drawer and forget about it.

She, a few months after giving birth to Salvo, "crept back to her kin and family, who weeks afterwards were massacred in their entirety by an aberrant tribe, right down to my last grandparent, uncle, cousin, distant aunt and half-brother or sister".

As for his personal relationships with the two, Mr. Kerry is a close friend and reminds him of Teddy Roosevelt, whose first wife, Alice Lee, was Mr. Butler's distant aunt.